I have built (with coaching) a Dobson telescope and used it a lot (they are rugged, mine is only an 8” mirror). Later he came for one week of lectures which he gave in Fort Worth, Texas, at the museum there … I attended every lecture and took notes … I think in 2003 (maybe I’m off a year). I still have all of his handouts along with notes, I reread them often. The combination of his masters degree in chemistry (working 1943 in E. O. Lawrence lab), the monastery (The Ramakrishna Order) and investigation of astronomy/cosmology created some very interesting theories. I think he knew some folks on the Manhattan project, perhaps my memory is inaccurate. Dobson did not agree with the “Big Bang” theory and his theories and my research since then have created an agnostic view about our current assertions. John was very peaceable but intensely logical he wouldn’t want a former itinerant student repeating controversial anecdotal fragments of logic. He had a dry humor stating to me once with a wry grin “I’m interested in how we got here, the monks were interested in how to get out”. He was brilliant beyond my poor words. Thank you for the article.